Weighing-scale.



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WITNESSES Y ATTO/mers J. H.& A. MGLEOD.

WEIGHING SCALE.

APPLICATION FILED 091211. 1907.

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WEIGEDING-Sm Specification o Leners Extent.

Patented Aug. 4, 190s.

Appiiaon sied oct-ber u. met. sean No. 396,927.

To all -i/:iom it may concern.'

States, and residents, respectively, of La Salle and Peru, in the county of Lasalle .and State of iiinois, have invented an Improvement in Weighing-Scales, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention is an improved automatic other conunodities.

The invention is embodied in the construction, arrangement and combination of i parts hereinafter described and illustrated,

in the accompanying drawings, in which l.y Figure l is a front side view of our scale- Fig. 2 is a side view taken at right angles to the view shown in Fig. 1. Fig'. 3 is a vertical section on the line 9 3 of Fig. 1. Fig'- 4 is a veilical section o.. the line 4i of Fig. 2. Fig. 5 is a horizontal section of the weighing hop 3er. Figs. 6 and 7 are detail views of the bearings or supports attached to the Weighing ho per. Figs. 8 and 9 are detail views of brac tets `vith which the bearings shown' in Figs. 6 and 7 coact. Figi@ is a side view showing a modification, and Fig. 11 is a side View of the saine taken at right angles to the view shown in Fig. 10.

The traine of the scale is rectangular and comprises` four corner 2 and top bars 3, these at the corners of the rame by castings et. which are secured by bolts. braces 4 connect the posts with the bottom bars or sills. 2 as shown. The posts and bars are square in cross section and made of seamless steel tubes, whereby they combine maximum strength arts being connected partments, the same being separated b v s. central partition 6; see Fig. 3. is supported by bearings, which will be presently des -ribed, upon weighing levers 7 and S, these being arranged in pairs on opposite sides of tbe hopper. As shown best in Fig'- 2, the upper an( longer weighing levers are i pivoted at '9 on brackets 10 attached to posts l 1 and the shorter and lower levers S are siniiattached to op- The free ends of the shorten-1' K stirrups 11 with. the central portion of the longer levers and of the latter bears upon a stirg y extends l, a

larly pivoted on bracl ets-10 posite posts.

evers S are connected b v the free end rup 1 which as shown in Fig. 1

posts l, bottoni bars inclined steel i with minimum Weight- The weighing hopper 5 has two vertical com- This hopper fil i. i i. I l 'r dated August 5th, 1902 i Tae bearings of the weighing hopper 5 by which it is connected with and supported abe weighing levers, comprise (see Figs.

ik 1 2. 7), castings or bracket-s 16, bearing 11T? and cup brackets 10,-see Figs- 8 and E-the latter being secured to the posts i as bieliore stated. The castings 16 are pro l vided with lateral arms or projections vmich are. canned or provided with sockets for receir'wl* the bearing arms 17, the latter being .able longitudinally as shown in'Fig. 7 .i secured b v a clamp screw 18.

The arms are provided with a cup which is adapted Peceve and bear upon a steel point in` `e il in the weighing levers 7 and S; and Emeril brackets 10 are similarly provided mib ai cup for receiving the steel points of :be weighing levers 7 and 8. The castings l "ein provided with vertical forks 19 which are spaced apart to receive the ends of the levers 7 and S as shown in Fig. 2. said arms serve as cross guides or si-ds. preventing the pivots of the levels rre-21 seing thrown laterally out of the cup provided by brackets 10, which is e it@ occur during shipment of the maor while lifting or moving it. The of the hopper 5 is made of four pieces of t iron suitably bent to form rectangular n tiarftnients, the plates being rivetedto- :as indicated 4in Fig. 5. The backs of :we ycompartments forni t-lie double parv f6. As indicated in Figs. 4, 5, the dges of the hopper are bent inward at ji angie of about 30 so that the bottom of compartment has .converging edges, web? the cement or grain is caused to i te in a smaller or more concentrated t 1an would be otherwise possible. A is attached to the' bottom ofthe hop :and extends around the same and des :s little below the converging portion Shown in Fig. 3. This band thus forms oir iange oir-each side of the hopper, in-

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' senese side'o which each `gate closes, thus forming a t portion of the bar 31 is provided with a forg ward horizont-al extension 34, see Figs. 1, 2,

double check, preventing tine cement or other material from leaking out of the hopper. For the saine purpose and also to serve as a guide for the discharging stream of cement or other material, the partition 6 is providedwith a vertical. downward extension 6, the saine t ing arranged and riveted between the inner walls of the compartments. Each of the compartments is provided with a gate, the. two being indicated respectively by numbers 20 and 20, see especially Figs. 2 and 3. Each gate is made of a llat steel plate and is adapted to close upward close against the converging edge 5a of the hopper compartiments as shown at the' left in Fig. 3. The gates are hinged by a rod 21 to castings secured to the lower corners of the hopper and they are 'stitiened transversely by strips of angle iron 22 riveted thereto as shown in Fig. 3.

The pivots 21 of the gates are detachable rom the castings, being secured by cotter pins. The gates are provided with similar arms 23 which are bent at, an obtuse angle and extend upward as shown. The ends of these arms are connected b y a bar 24, one of whose ends is extended at a right angle upward as shown at 24, Fics. 2, 3. To such o arm 24 is piroted a catci or catch bar 25 that extends horizontally across the side of the hopper, there being preferably but one on each side ot' the hopper, so that if one tails to operate the other will. This bar is pro. vided with two notches 26 and 27, one being at the free end of the bar and the other a short distance therefrom. The bar is adapted to ride upon a roller 2S mounted upon a stud attached to a casting 29 secured to the hopper 5 and the casting is also provided with a guard 3() to prevent lateral movement of t-he bar 25, or in other words, for holding it in due engagement with the roller 2S. As shown ink Fig- 2 the outer notch 27 Aoi. the catch bar 25 is engaged with the roller 2S and thus through the medium of the angle connecting bar 24 the left hand gate 20 is held closed and the other gate 20 open; see also Fig. 3. In sut-ii position of the gates '20, 20, itis obvious that the left hand compartment is closed` and adapted to receive cement, grain or other article while .the opposite or right hand compartment is open so as to discharge. its contents- The catch 'oars 25 are tripped, that is t-o say, disengaged from the rollers` 2S, by a device wliich termed a trip bar 31, the same extending across the front of the hopper as shown in F ig. 1 and having its end portions bentY at right angles and extended inward on the sides oliA the hopper. arms thus formel are pivoted at 32 to the brackets 29 and their free ends are provided with rollers :S3-that work in contact with the under side ot' the catch bars 25. The central The and with this a. vertical trip bar' coacts;

with the front bar connecting the longer weighingv levers 7 and its lower end is bent laterally as indicated in Fig. 1. It is obvious that when the longer weighing levers 7 are carried down by a weight of material in the weighing hopper 5, t-he rod 35 will descend and bear down u ion the arin 34 of the pivoted trip bar 31, whereby the catch bar 25 will be raised and released from the rollers 2S, whereupon the catch bar will slide through the loop 30 until its notch 26 engages the roller 2S.V It. will be understood that the weight of the cement or other material in the closed compartment of the hop- 1 per, bearing down upon the closed gate of such compartment., serves as the ino-tive agent for effecting such shifting of the catch bar and of course effects simultaneously the closing of the opposite gate. In other words, when the gates and their connections are in the position indicated in Figs. 1 and 2, so soon as the left hand compartment is filled with a predetermined weight of materia-l, the weighing levers 7 an 8 will be depressed, the hopper thereby descending slightly andthe trips 3 5 and 31 causing release of the catch bars 25 from the rollers 28, and the weight. of grain in the lef t hand ho per opening the gate 20 and simultaneous y closing the gate 20, while the connections 24 and 25 are shifted to the right, as will be readily understood.

The weight of the connecting bar 31 and the arm 32 attached thereto. overbalances the weight of its arms that are pivoted to the bracket 29, so that the rollers 33 are always held in working contact with the catch bars 35. it one of the catch bars fails for any reason to properly engage the roller 28, the other on the opposite side will hold the load until the trip acts. Hinged covers 45 at top of hop )er 5 prevent loss of line material when c osed. One is shown open andthe other closed. The loop guide 30 in which the catch bar 25 slides, is extended downward and serves as a stop limiting the upward movement of the arms on the trip bar 31, so that the rolleis 33 will not enter the notches 26 in the catch bar as it slides through the loop in the manner already described.

A receiving hopper 35, see Figs. 2, 3, 4, is

arranged. above the weighing hopper and ixed in position, it being su )ported upon a' distance between their lower edges and the 13 sides of the hopper is less than, the width ofA i slotted arm 41, see Fig. '2, which arm is extended at right angles to the plane of the plate or body of the deflector. A shifting bar 42 is pivoted to a bracket 43 on the side of the hopper and one end engages such slotted arm of the dcflector while the other engages a pin -t-ff'rved on the connecting bar 24. The lower end of the said bar is slotted to allow due play for the pin 44 and the upper end is provided wit-h a roller to red ucc friction when in contact with the slotted arm 41. This bar 42 serves as a means for shifting the deflector from one inclination to another. Thus in Figs. and the deflector 39 is shown inclined to the left and therefore in position to discharge into the left hand com-4 when the gate 2t) opens, the gate 20 is closed and the deflector is simultaneously shifted from left to right and will then discharge material into the right hand compartment. ihen that shall have been filled, the operation will he repeated` the gate 20 opening and the gate .20 closing, while the defleetor will he shifted back to the position shown in full lines in Figs. .2 and 3. A--Thus the operation of the scale is entirel) automatic, one compartment filling as the other 'discharges and vice versa. As shown in Fig. 3 the deflector is in contact. with the lower end or throat portion of the fixed hopper 3G, which thus serves as a stop limitingr its throw and holding its slotted arm in such position. Thus the delict-tor arm `t1 is held out of contact with the roller in the end of the shifting bar 42 at the time the machine is weighing, and hence no pressure is brought to bear on the slotted arm 41 ,until the hopper discharges. it may be stated in this connection that the machine ma).v be operated manuall y with an) weight of grain in either com` partment of the hopper, 1t being only necessary lfor'the operator to depress the lever arm 34 and thus raise the catchbar 25 out of en gagement wltlrthe roller 12ers.

ln Figs. 10 and l1 is shown a mot 1 lea i' W in which the w hing hopper 5, the gates'.

and their conne.. ions, to wit, bar 24 and catch bar 25, are constructed, arranged and operated as alreadydescribed.. In this instance in place of employing a deflector the upper hopper 36" is pivoted and adapted to swing in place or' being fixed rin position as before. The hopper is attached to. weighted bars 46 that are pivoted at 47 in the frame 37a. l-Yeights SS are attached to the top ends of the bars and their lower ends are connected by a bar tti with an upward extension of the arm 24 of :he bar 24 that connects the gate arms 23. dien one gate opens andthe other closes an upper side edge of the hopper 36 strikes a stop 50 fixed on the frame 37, and when the hopper moves in the other direct-ion by the opemtion of the gates, it con# tracts with the opposite stop 50. The ho )per is held in such position against the chec or stop 50 until the required weight vof material has been received into the weighing hopper.

Thus no pressure is brought. against the lever or bar 46 until the machine discharges. Deflectors and arrestexs for material too large to pass the throat of the hopper, are provided in this case as in the machine first described.

le claim 1. The improved weighing scale compris' alternately, a catch har operatively con-- nected with the gates. a fixed device on the hopper with which the said catch bar is adapted to engage. a trip har attached to the hopper and adapted to disengage the catch bar when a compartment is filled, substantially as described.

2. T he improved weighing scale comprising a frame. we'mhing and graduated levers, a weighing hopper supported on the weighing levers and divided into compartments, gates hinged to the hopper and adapted to open and close .te same alternately. means for connecting together in opening and closing, a catch bar connected with the gates, a fixed device' on the hopper with which said catch bar is adapted to engage, whereby the gates are held alternately in the openand closed position, a trip mechanism for disengaging the catch bar from said device when a hopper compartment is filled with the ref uired weight ofmaterial, said meehe gates so that they move anism eing connected with the weighing le- Cil matically when the hopperl descends with its load, substantially as described. g

3. The improved weighing scale comprising a support-ing frame, weighing and graduated levers arranged therein, a weighing hopper supported on the weighing levers,` a gate for alternately opening and closing the hopper, a catch bar connected with 'the gate and a iixed device on the ho per with which said catch. bar is adaptedp to engage, a trip bar 31 for disengaging the catch bar and allowing the gate to open when the hopper is tilled with the required weight of material, and a device connected with the weighing lever and arranged to act on the trip bar whereby it is actuated automatically as the hopper descends, substantially as described.

4. The improved weighing scale comprising a supporting frame, weighing and graduated levers arranged therein, a weighing hopper supported on the weighing levers and divided into compartments, hinged gates for alternately opening and closing the respective hop ers, said gates being provided with extendet arms, a bar connecting said arms so that the two gates `swing together, one closing as the other opens, a catch bar pivotally connected with the gates and provided ith two notches, a fixed device on the hop- V'per with which the notches are adapted to engage, a tri i bar pivoted on the hopper and arranged to litt the catch bar out of engagement with said device and a rod connected with the weighing lever for actuating such trip bar automatically as the hopper descends with its load, substantially as described.

5. In a weighing scale, the .combination with a hopper having a central vertical partition, and iivoted gates for closing the discharge en s of the compartments thus formed, said gates having extended varms, of a bar connecting the gate arms whereby one gate is closed as the otheropens, and a catch bar or locking device connected with the gates and serving to lock either in the closed position, substantiallyT as described.

6. In a weighing scale of the type indicated, the combination with the weighing hopper provided with two compartments, and gates for closing the saine, of a det-lector Divoted in the upper central portion-of the hopper and provided with an extended lever arm and opposite counterbalaiice weights against the flanges of the required to discharge material into a hopper.

compartment, a stop for arresting the movenient of the dellector and holding it in the required position, and means .operatively connecting the deflector with the hopper gates whereby all are shifted simultaneously, substantially as described.

7. The combination -with the weighing hopper having its lower end provided with converging llanges, a band attached to the outer side of the saine and extended downward, and a gate hinged to the hopper and adapted to close upward inside the band and hopper, substantially as described.

8. The combination with the weighing hopper having a central vertical partition and gates hinged to the lower ends of the com? partments and adapted to close upward as described, of a )late attached to the partit-ion and depending from and thus'forniing a practical continuation of the same, substantiallyas described. l

9; The combination with the fname., the weighing hopper and weighing levers on which the saine is sup iorted, of supporting brackets attached to tlie frame and having forks which embrace the pivoted ends of the weighing levers and thus serve as guides and fruards preventing lateral displacement of the levers, substantially as described l0. The combination with the frame, the weighing hopper, weighing levels whereon the hopper is su iported, tlie means of support comprising brackets or castings secured to the ho )per and provided with lateral sockets am extensible arms secured in said sockets, their outei ends bearing upon the weighing levers, substantially as described:

l1. The im )roved means for support of the weighing liopper upon the weighing levers, consisting of castings adapted to be secured to the hopper and having lateral projections provided with sockets, arms adapt'- ed to slide in said sockets and screws for clamping the saine in any adjustment, the outer ends of the arms being constructed for pivotal' contact with the weighiigr levers,

Z. H. MOORE, HENRY C. W'ATERS, Jr. 

